Commentary: Tom Coughlin still believes he can

Coach, 67, defies his age in profession lacking dignity

11:21 PM,
Dec. 26, 2013

The Giants' Tom Coughlin says he still wants to coach in 2014, 'probably even more, because there are a lot of those that are telling you that you didn't do very well, and you're not a very good coach, and this and that.'

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Colin McGowan
Sports on Earth

If you watch enough hours of NFL Films presentations and maybe read a few of those ghostwritten Father's Day-bait tomes about "leadership strategies" and "the will to win" by Bill Walsh or Jimmy Johnson, you might fall under the impression that coaching a football team is a high-minded pursuit. But like anything having to do with the NFL - a multi-billion-dollar enterprise built around a body- and mind-ravaging game of collisions - coaching ranks low on the virtue scale. It is not and cannot be about instilling positive values in and bettering the lives of the people who play it, so much as it is ...